William E. Rogers is Bennette E. Geer Professor of English at Furman University.

• ContentsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Reconstructing Girls’ Education in the Postrevolutionary Period (1800–1830)1.Defining Bourgeois Femininity: Voices and Debates2.Schools, Schooling, and the Educational ExperiencePart II. Women, Schools, and the Politics of Culture (1830–1880)3.Debating Women’s Place in the Consolidating Bourgeois Order (1830–1848)4.Independent Women? Teachers and the Teaching Profession at Midcentury5.Vocations and Professions: The Case of the Teaching Nun6.Boarding Schools: Location, Ethos, and Female IdentitiesPart III. National and Political Visions of Girls’ Education7.Political Battles for Women’s Minds in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century8.Beyond the Hexagon: French Schools on Foreign SoilsConclusionAppendix 1: The Women PedagoguesAppendix 2: The Professions of Fathers and Husbands of Parisian Headmistresses (1810–1880)NotesSelect BibliographyIndex

William E. Rogers is Bennette E. Geer Professor of English at Furman University.

• ContentsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Reconstructing Girls’ Education in the Postrevolutionary Period (1800–1830)1.Defining Bourgeois Femininity: Voices and Debates2.Schools, Schooling, and the Educational ExperiencePart II. Women, Schools, and the Politics of Culture (1830–1880)3.Debating Women’s Place in the Consolidating Bourgeois Order (1830–1848)4.Independent Women? Teachers and the Teaching Profession at Midcentury5.Vocations and Professions: The Case of the Teaching Nun6.Boarding Schools: Location, Ethos, and Female IdentitiesPart III. National and Political Visions of Girls’ Education7.Political Battles for Women’s Minds in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century8.Beyond the Hexagon: French Schools on Foreign SoilsConclusionAppendix 1: The Women PedagoguesAppendix 2: The Professions of Fathers and Husbands of Parisian Headmistresses (1810–1880)NotesSelect BibliographyIndex

William E. Rogers is Bennette E. Geer Professor of English at Furman University.

• ContentsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Reconstructing Girls’ Education in the Postrevolutionary Period (1800–1830)1.Defining Bourgeois Femininity: Voices and Debates2.Schools, Schooling, and the Educational ExperiencePart II. Women, Schools, and the Politics of Culture (1830–1880)3.Debating Women’s Place in the Consolidating Bourgeois Order (1830–1848)4.Independent Women? Teachers and the Teaching Profession at Midcentury5.Vocations and Professions: The Case of the Teaching Nun6.Boarding Schools: Location, Ethos, and Female IdentitiesPart III. National and Political Visions of Girls’ Education7.Political Battles for Women’s Minds in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century8.Beyond the Hexagon: French Schools on Foreign SoilsConclusionAppendix 1: The Women PedagoguesAppendix 2: The Professions of Fathers and Husbands of Parisian Headmistresses (1810–1880)NotesSelect BibliographyIndex